Fashion plate, from Le Petit Courrier des Dames

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This hand-coloured fashion plate is from Le Petit Courrier des Dames, a weekly fashion magazine published in Paris. The plate is one in a series entitled, 'Modes de Paris' and illustrates day dresses. It is dated 18 August, 1860.

The dress skirts are enormous and would have been supported by the artificial crinoline or hooped cage which had been introduced early in 1856. The plate is signed, 'Pauquet' and 'A. Portier".

A Pauquet also produced drawings for Le Journal des Demoiselles and The Queen. Other artists who contributed to Le Petit Courrier de Dames were A de Taverne, Laure Noël, Hervy and Madame de Closmenil.

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• Online ID: 000-100-087-208-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.RHI 24.48
• Date: 1823 - 1861
  1860
  
• Material: Inscription: Modes de Paris
  Paper. Inscription: Pauquet ; A. Portier
  Document / plate, fashion
  Plate, fashion
  
• Dimensions: 10.40" x 7.40"
  
• What: Document / plate, fashion
  Plate, fashion
  
• Subject: Fashion plates (NMAS Classification)
  Fashion plates
  
• Who: A. Portier
  Pauquet
  Petit Courrier des Dames
  
• Where: France, Paris
  France, Paris
  
• Event:
• Description: One of forty-nine fashion plates entitled Modes de Paris, from the Petit Courrier des Dames, 1823 - 1861
  Fashion plate showing two day dresses, signed 'Pauquet and A. Portier', from Petit Courrier des Dames, Paris, number 3155, 18 August, 1860
  
• References:
  • Holland, Vyvyan. Hand Coloured Fashion Plates 1770 to 1899. London: B.T. Batsford, 1955, pp 67 & 159. 
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